Saturday, June 10, 2017

Hidden Under a Basket


I saw a video clip on the White Sox-Indiana game, of all places.  Claire Eccles, a 19-year old female knuckleballer from the University of British Columbia, debuted Wednesday in the West Coast League, a wood-bat summer league for college players.  Among the WCL alums of note are Chris Davis and Jacoby Ellsbury.  Eccles pitched two innings, yielding two runs on a hit and a walk.

There was nothing on the MLB site about it, although I did see stories about two ducks in the outfield at Wrigley Field yesterday and a new commercial featuring Chris Sale and David Price dressed up as soda jerks.  So, there you have MLB’s priorities on full display.  If you knew Eccles’ name, though, you could search the site for a short MLB Network piece on Eccles’ debut, which is better than nothing, I guess.   

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